Read Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape Online
Authors: Susan Brownmiller
( 262) ". . .
an iron embrace has made him a woman":
Ibid .
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Genet was subjected to repeated assaults: Jean Genet, Miracle of the Rose ( 1951), trans. from the French by Bernard Frechtman, London: Anthony Blond, 1965, throughout.
( 262 ) tube of Vaseline: Jean Genet,
The Thief's Tournal
(
1949) , trans. from the French by Bernard Frechtman, New York: Grove Press,
1964,
PP·
21-22.
( 262 ) Winter s "pretty mug": Miracle of the Rose, p. 248.
( 262 ) Bulkaen's gang spitting: Miracle of the Rose, pp. 266-268. ( 262 ) anal compliments: Miracle of the Rose, pp. 180-181, 199·
( 262 ) His adoration of the muscular thighs, etc.: This runs as a theme in all his writings; his attraction to Nazis is most pronounced in Funeral
Rites.
( 263) "a male that fucks another male": Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers ( 1943) , trans. from the French by Bernard Frechtman, New York: Grove Press, 1963, p. 253.
( 263) ". . . the Saint who lets herself be raped": Sartre, p. 367.
( 263 ) Footnote, Lytton Strachey at the Hampstead Tribunal: Michael Hol royd, Lytton Strachey, London: Penguin, 1971, pp. 628-629.
SOURCE NOTES
"the rump is the secret femininity of males": Sartre, p. 457.
T. E. Lawrence's gang rape: T.
E.
LawreQce, Seven Pillars
of Wis
dom, New York: Doubleday, 1935, p. 443; Anthony Nutting, Law rence
of
Arabia, London: Hollis
&
Carter, 196i, pp. 112-116, 244-247.
" . seduction . . . gone wrong": John H. Gagnon and William
Simon, Sexual Conduct, Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., 1973, p. 250. Philadelphia study: Alan J. Davis, "Sexual Assaults in the Philadel phia Prison System," Gagnon and Simon, eds., The Sexual Scene, Chicago: Transaction/ Aldine, 1970, pp. 107-124.
periodic exposes: See Wayne King, "Killing of Carolina Jailer, Charged to a Woman, Raises Question of Abuse of Inmates," New York Times, Dec.
i,
1974. In this story it was reported that one month earlier the U.S. Attorney General had been alerted to "seri ous evidence that hundreds of women, both black and white, have been subjected to illegal and immoral sexual assaults by jailers and jail trusties where they were confined" in North Carolina penal institutions. See also "2 Mental Patients l_laped by Prisoners," Wash ington
Post,
Jan.
12,
1972, p. B-3; "31 in Ohio Charged with Mis treating Asylum Inmates," New York Times, Nov. 25, 1971, p. 42; Jerry M. Flint, "31 Ex-Employees at Ohio Hospital Appear in Court," New York Times, Nov. 27, 1971, p. 24; Grace Lichten stein, "Allegation of Staff Violence Tainting Rome State School," New York Times, May 5, 1973; "Legislator Asserts Crime Rose at Willowbrook School in 1973," New York
Times,
Feb. 14, 1974. All of these stories mention sexual assault within an institutional setting. inmate hierarchy in a women's prison: See Rose Giallombardo, Society of Women:
A
Study of a Women's Prison, New York: John Wiley, 1966, Chaps. 8, 9 and
io.
(268)
lesbian rape of an inmate: Frances Farmer,
Will
There Really Be a
M orning?
New York: Dell, 1973, pp. 145-152.
(268)
newspaper expose of Children's Center: Murray Schumach, "Gangs of Girls Terrorize Staff and the Retarded at Children's Unit Here," New York
Times,
Sept. 8, 1974, p.
i;
Murray Schumach, "Teen Aged Girls to Leave Center," New York Times, Sept. 12, 1974, p.
i.
In October 1972, officer Farley was suspended: "City Patrolman, Accused of Raping Girl, Suspended," New York
Times,
Oct. 8, 1972.
Farley sentenced to fif teen years: "Former City Detective Given
15-Year Sentence for Rape," New York
Times,
Feb. 5, 1974.
twelve-year sentence in another jurisdiction, Suffolk case still pend ing:
Ibid .
entire raping career while member of NYPD: Verification from Assistant District Attorney Leslie Snyder, who prosecuted the Man hattan cases, by telephone, Sept. 13, 1974.
New York newspaper monitoring, one new case per year: "Cop Guilty in Queens Sex Case," New York Post, June 29, 1971 ( Brooklyn patrolman, 31, convicted of statutory rape and sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl in a Woodside, Queens, motel ) ; "Patrol man Held in Sex Attacks on Two Women in Forest Hills," New
SOURCE NOTES
I
43;
York Times, June 4, 1972 (Queens patrolman, 24, assigned to duty in Manhattan, suspended from force and arrested and charged with rape, sodomy and unlawful imprisonment for two separate attacks at gunpoint, one on a 44-year-old woman ) ; "TPF Cop Is Accused of Rape," New York Post, Feb. 24, 1973 (Tactical Patrol Force officer, 26, arrested and arraigned in Queens criminal court on charges of rape and sodomy on a 29-year-old woman in the hallway of her home; promptly suspended from force) .
Washington, Cleveland, Houston: "Policeman Charged in Second Rape," Washington Post, Nov. 12, 1971; ":md Girl Says Patrolmen Raped Her," Cleveland Plain Dealer, Feb. 25, 1972; "City civil service commissioners have suspended two policemen for insub ordination stemming from the controversy over whether they beat and raped a prostitute," United Press International, Houston, Mar. 23 ,1974.
Detroit: Michael Graham, "Officers Accused of Sex Crimes, Three
Suspended Af ter Investigation," Detroit Free Press, Nov. 22, 1973,
p.
i.
See also United Press International, Detroit, "Police," Nov. 22, 1973.
dismissed from force af ter departmental hearing, etc.: By telephone
from Sgt. James Jackson, Detroit Police Department press officer, Sept. 13, 1974.
"Two young Negro women": We Charge Genocide ( "The historic
petition to the United Nations for relief from a crime of the United States government against the Negro People," 1951), New York: International Publishers, 1970, p. 82.
women's folklore of rape: See Ann Landers' column, New York Daily News, Sept. 16, 1974, for results of an informal poll taken among her readers regarding sexual advances made by doctors, den tists, clergymen and divorce lawyers.
"Dear Abby": New York Post, Feb.
11,
1972.
in prison child molester lowest of the low: Clinton T. Duffy with Al Hirshberg, Sex and Crime, New York: Doubleday, 1965, p. 58. This was the theme of Miguel Pinero's play
Short
Eyes.
Seen as a confused, conflicted man with a "morality" problem or bad judgment: Paul H. Gebhard et al., Sex Offenders ( 1965) , New York: Bantam, 1967, pp. 81-82.
Washington study: Charles R. Hayman et al., "Rape in the District of Columbia," presented to the 99th Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Minneapolis, Oct. 12, 1971 (mimeo ) ,
PP·
5-6.
Memphis study: Brenda A. Brown, "Crime Against Women Alone,"
a System Analysis of the Memphis Police Department Sex Crime Squad's 1973 Rape Investigations, May 18, 1974 (mimeo), Appen dix, K-i.
Philadelphia study: Menachem Amir, Patterns
in Forcible
Rape, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971, p. 52.
molestation of Virginia Woolf : Quentin Bell, Virginia
Woolf,
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1972, pp. 42-44, 61, 78, 95-<)6.
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rape of Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday with William Dufty,
Lady
Sings the Blues ( 1956), New York: Lancer, 1972, pp. 15-17. molestation of Viva: Viva, Superstar, New York: Putnam, 1970, pp. 25-28.
rape of Maya Angelou: Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bud Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, pp. 57-73.
Freud on female patients: Sigmund Freud,
New
Introductory Lec tures on Psychoanalysis ( 1933) , No. 33, "Femininity." (New York: Norton, 1965, p. 120.) Freud made this point on other occasions as well, and it was clearly the inspiration for the attitudes of Helene Deutsch and others.
"unusually attractive and charming rersonalities": Lauretta Bender and Abram Blau, "The Reaction o Children to Sexual Relations with Adults," American
Journal
of Orthopsychiatry, 1937, pp. 500-518.
". . . highly probable that the child had used his charm": Lauretta Bender and Alvin
E.
Grugett, "A Follow-Up Report on Children Who Had Atypical Sexual Experience," American
Journal of
Orthopsychiatry, 1952, pp. 825-837.
chastised mothers: See Yvonne M. Tormes,
Child
Victims of Incest, Denver:
American
Humane Association, Children's Division, 1968 (pamphlet ) ; see also John M. MacDonald, Rape Offenders and
Their Victims,
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1971, pp. 201-202.
"A problem which deserves noting": Alfred C. Kinsey
et al., Sexual
Behavior
in
the Human Male, Philadelphia:
W.
B. Saunders, 1948, pp. 237-238.
One in four women interviewed: Alfred C. Kinsey et
al., Sexual Behavior
in the Human Female, Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1953, pp. 117-u8.
"It is difficult to understand": Kinsey,
Female,
p. 12i.
"With the usual male arrogance": Florence Rush, "The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View," paper presented to the New York Radical Feminist Conference on Rape, Apr. 17, 1971 ( mimeo ) ; also in Cassandra Wilson and Noreen Connell, eds., Rape:
The
First
Sourcebook for Women, New York: NAL Plume,
1
974·
Brooklyn-Bronx study: Vincent DeFrancis, Protecting
the Child
Victim of Sex Crimes Committed By
Adults,
Denver: American Humane Association, Children's Division, 1969. Individual citations follow.